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Risky Business
CIO Council efforts to help agency managers secure their systems against threats that compromise data and services include these programs
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Retirement system on the mend
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board announced this week that Thrift Savings Plan participants can begin investing in two new investment funds starting in May
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NASIRE brimming with ideas
With more than 400 government and industry reps circulating at the NASIRE conference, news and ideas were swirling too
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Under new management
Managing today's distributed agency computer systems is no easy task. And it is little help when a tight information technology labor market makes hiring and retaining experienced employees challenging.
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What are you going to do about the shortage of trained IT workers?
Presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush answer Federal Computer Week's questions about federal IT policy.
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DOD rethinks workforce plans
The Defense Department has reversed a longtime policy of reducing the civilian acquisition and technology workforce.
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The outsourcing wave rolls on
If predictions by industry and government studies are correct, more federal information technology jobs will be turned over to the private sector in coming years. The only question is whether the numbers will be modest or mammoth.
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Working for the future
DOD's Acquisition 2005 Task Force has a complex but straightforward job
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Feds and the campaign trail
Many federal employees get involved in political activities during the campaign season, including the presidential, congressional and local elections
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Should more government IT jobs be outsourced?
Presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush answer Federal Computer Week's questions about federal IT policy.
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FAA infosec workers get lift
The Federal Aviation Administration is offering its information security workers a wellrounded education.
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Virtual diagnosis
Navy and Marine Corps medical personnel are using an interactive training tool that simulates the conditions of victims caught in a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
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What protection?
The odds of winning an appeal against your agency are not in your favor, according to the most recent figures from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Only about 18 percent of the cases considered by the MSPB were decided in favor of the employee.
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Sovereignty in cyberspace
In the words of Jose Maria Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, 'There are only two nationalities: those that are connected to the Internet and those that are not.'
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Emergency treatment
Navy and Marine Corps medical personnel for the first time are using computerbased training to prepare themselves to treat victims of nuclear, chemical and biological attacks that could occur on the battlefield or in the streets of U.S. cities.
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